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U.S. Ch 10
The Jazz Age
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 1. supply-side economics | economic theory that lower taxes will boost the economy as businesses and individuals invest their money, thereby creating higher tax revenue |
| 2. cooperative individualism | president Hoover's policy of encouraging manufactures and distributors to form their own organizations and volunteer information to the federal government in an effort to stimulate the economy |
| 3. isolationism | a national policy of avoiding involvement in world affairs |
| 4. investigation | a systematic examination or official inquiry |
| 5. revelation | an act of revealing to view or making known |
| 6. Teapot Dome | |
| 7. Charles G. Dawes | |
| 8. Charles Evans Hughes | |
| 9. Kellogg-Briand Pact | |
| 10. mass production | the production of large quantities of goods using machinery and often an assembly line |
| 11. assembly line | a production system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as the item passes before him or her |
| 12. Model T | automobile built by the ford motor company from 1908 until 1927 |
| 13. welfare capitalism | system in which companies enable employees to buy stock, participate in profit sharing, and receive benefits such as medical care common in the 1920s |
| 14. open shop | a workplace where workers are not required to join a union |
| 15. disposable | referring to the money remaining to an individual after deduction of taxes |
| 16. credit | an amount or sum of money placed at a persons disposal by a bank on condition that it will be repaid with interest |
| 17. Charles Lindbergh | |
| 18. nativism | hostility toward immigrants |
| 19. anarchist | person who believes that there should be no government |
| 20. evolution | the scientific theory that humans and other forms of life have evolved over time |
| 21. creationism | the belief that god created the world and everything in it, usually in the way described in genesis |
| 22. speakeasy | a place where alcoholic beverages are sold illegally |
| 23. source | the point at which something is provided |
| 24. deny | to declare untrue |
| 25. Emergency Quota Act | |
| 26. National Origins Act | |
| 27. Fundamentalism | |
| 28. bohemian | a person (as an artist or writer) leading an unconventional lifestyle |
| 29. mass media | a medium of communication (as in television and radio) intended to reach a wide audience |
| 30. diverse | being different from one another |
| 31. unify | to bring a group together with a similar goal or thought pattern |
| 32. Carl Sandburgh | |
| 33. Willa Cather | |
| 34. Ernest Hemingway | |
| 35. F. Scott Fitzgerald | |
| 36. Edith Wharton | |
| 37. Jazz | American style of music that developed from ragtime and blues and which uses syncopated rhythms and melodies |
| 38. blues | style of music evolving from African American spirituals and noted for its melancholy sound |
| 39. symbolize | to represent , express, or identify by a symbol |
| 40. impact | to make a lasting impression upon an individual or group |
| 41. ongoing | being actually in process, continuing |
| 42. Great Migration | |
| 43. Harlem Renaissance | |
| 44. Claude Mckay | |
| 45. Langston Hughes | |
| 46. Zora Neale Hurston | |
| 47. Cotton Club | |
| 48. Marcus Garvey |
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